Science & Internet

How to use the internet for teaching exact science

Karl SarnowGymnasium Isernhagen

ESP & ECOLE meeting

4-9 March 2003Rome

Background

Teacher (Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science) at Gymnasium Isernhagen (Germany).

Co-founder of BioNet e.V.

National coordinator for the ESP in Germany.

Participant of CERN HST activities.

LINUX fan. Karl Sarnow

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Reasons for using the internet

The internet is...... a huge resource of scientific material.

... a wonderful community of people who think like you.

... an actual newsletter informing about projects, people and performances.

... GREAT!

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Kinds of resources

Text.

Images.

Software and toolkits for explanation, simulation, measurement, analysis.

Projects to help teachers engaging students in self responsible work.

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Resource of scientific material (I)

HTML documents.Articles about a subject from your curriculum.

Interactive.Readable/writeable on all computer platforms.Easily translatable in foreign languages.Cooperative authors.

Guidelines for project work.

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Resource of scientific material (I)

Examples of HTML materialCERN HST pages

Biologie 2000

KworkQuark

Physics 2000

Table of Elements

Biochemistry

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Resource of scientific material (II)

Pictures...... you cannot take yourself.

AstronomyHubble/NASAESO

National/International LaboratoriesCERNDESY

... diagrams and movies you can't create yourself.

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Resource of scientific material (II)

Picture examples:Historical CERN bubble chamber photos.

Prepared for teaching using the GIMP.

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Resource of scientific material (III)

JAVA programs.Run on all computer platforms.

Can be embedded in an HTML page.

Great tool for simulation and visualization.

Many toolkits to support programmers.

Cost free implementation.

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Resource of scientific material (III)

JAVA program examples.Walter Fendt's programs.

Geonext.

Physics 2000

Disadvantage:Many different JAVA versions.

Many programmers still produce native versions, neglecting JAVA.

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Resource of scientific material (IV)

Projects.Many organisations help you organising project work.

Ressource of people thinking like you.

Jump into framework and contribute your own work.

Make your work visible to others.

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Resource of scientific material (IV)

Examples of projects in the exact sciences:

BioNet e.V.

CERN HST.

TiE.

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BioNet e.V.(I)

Project to support field work in the exact sicences.

AquaData.Water qualitiy of rivers.

AeroData.Air quality.

TerraData.Soil properties.

RadioData.Environmental radioactivity.

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BioNet e.V.(II)

Basic concept:Central Web-Database.

Students apply experiments and sample data in their local environment.

Data input into the database.

Data retrieval from the database.

Students workout statistics framework.

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BioNet e.V.(III)

OpenSource approach.BioNet offers its material for free use.

Copy, use and modify, just keep the Copyright notice.Give us back your developments.Development based on HTML/PHP/JAVA.

Invitation for cooperation.Get your free webspace & e-mail address for documentation of your work.

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BioNet e.V.(IV)

Contact:http://www.bionet.schule.de

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CERN - HST (I)Centre Européenne de Récherche Nucléaire.

Europes large research center for particle physics.

High School Teacher programme.3 weeks in summer holidays to get the latest information about particle physics.

Learning by doing: Create teaching material while you have the specialists near you.

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CERN - HST (II)

OpenSource approach.Use and modify the material, but keep the copyright.

HTML based material.

Contact:http://teachers.cern.ch

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Linux: IT survival kit for schools

OpenSource gives you:Software for all problems without cost and licensing problems.

Webserver, HTML authoring tools, software development tools, databases, data mining tools, data exploration, data display, data analysis,...

Ideal school environment for project work.

Login based: individual responsibility, controlled access, unsupervised learning.

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Linux: Software for the political aware schoolPrepare children to live in a free world.

Monopolism generates control.

OpenSource garantees insight into software and prevents misuse of information.

For democratic, independent countries, OpenSource in education is a must.

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Thanks...

...for your patience.